*Official* Sri Lanka in New Zealand 2022/23

[TT Boy]

New ball five overs away and want Southee and Henry to take it, but I hope we're not going to start with pish from both ends until that time. Need one of them on immediately, otherwise it's like five overs of throwdowns to get the SL batsmen in.

Going by that over and old ball or not, Southee and Henry need to be bowling. Sri Lanka may have 350 time the new ball is available.

 

[straw man]

This could be over really quickly though - it's a really disgusting tail.

... or Rajitha, test batting average of 4, could flay our second string bowlers around and score a fifty if not more.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Can they go outside the squad for the 2nd test? If not Kuggleijn is pretty much guaranteed to start.

 

[straw man]

Yay Southee

 

[Bahnz]

Jeez if this bowling attack is persisted with, Southee’s wpm ratio is going to go through the roof.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Another one for Southee

 

[TT Boy]

Decent score for Sri Lanka but so many soft dismissals.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Jeez if this bowling attack is persisted with, Southee’s wpm ratio is going to go through the roof.

He's probably selecting the team for that reason. Win toss and bowl on green seamer and stack attack with pie chuckers. Result: captain gets bags of wickets

 

[Bahnz]

Still don’t like the way Blundell takes those wide chances. His feet barely moved at all and the ball was waaaay outside his eye line. Could do with a couple of coaching clinics with BJ once he goes back to Wellington.

 

[TT Boy]

... or Rajitha, test batting average of 4, could flay our second string bowlers around and score a fifty if not more.

Jerome Taylor at least had some previous with the bat.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Jerome Taylor at least had some previous with the bat.

Harby got 2 100s against us. Otherwise we would've won a test in India

 

[Jezroy]

This is helping Timmeh’s recent average.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Southee now past Vettori on overall test wickets as well as for NZ as DV took 1-fer for World XI vs Aus.

 

[straw man]

Decent score for Sri Lanka but so many soft dismissals.

I thought DDS was very good yesterday, better than I'd seen him before. He has scored one century (which I don't think I saw much of) vs NZ but failed every other innings. So giving away his wicket like that is a waste.

 

[Prince EWS]

Keeping Tickner on even after DDS was out is ridiculous. Saving Henry for the new ball against players who average 4, 4, 3 and 3 in Tests.

 

[Bahnz]

Jeez Tickner needs to work on his fitness. Clocking 125k’s after a pretty moderate workload on day 1.

 

[straw man]

Jerome Taylor at least had some previous with the bat.

Harby got 2 100s against us. Otherwise we would've won a test in India

Opposition bowlers scoring embarrassing centuries from 8 against us has a whole catalogue.
Harbhajan
J Taylor
Saqlain Mushtaq
Junior Murray (though not sure if batted 8)

I'm probably forgetting one or two more.

 

[kaetor]

Harby got 2 100s against us. Otherwise we would've won a test in India

That 15-5 game still gives me nightmares

 

[Mike5181]

Keeping Tickner on even after DDS was out is ridiculous. Saving Henry for the new ball against players who average 4, 4, 3 and 3 in Tests.

Yeah but if he takes a couple of wickets their selection doesn't look as bad if people only look at the scorecard.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

That 15-5 game still gives me nightmares

A lot of what ifs